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Dear Member,
It is early in the week here at work again after a disappointing loss against St Kilda on Saturday night — we here share your aggravation.
The disappointing part of the evening for us was we had an opportunity to test ourselves against a pretty well drilled, structured team and there were really evident signs that we just hadn’t followed what we were asked to do with the way we set the ground up and with the way we were setting the stoppages up.
We had too many people reactive to the opposition and not thinking their way through it and that is going to be a challenge for myself and the coaches to realign.
We are not for one second accepting that it is ok to be like that. St Kilda put pressure on our players when they had the ball in hand and we forgot about the basics – if you have a free teammate just take it straight away, give the first option.
As a result our young forwards got starved of opportunities and too often were left to try to compensate when they were heavily outnumbered because we were taking too long to get the ball into them.
What we are going to do as a group of coaches is that every Monday will be the same whether we win, lose or draw — we will go through what we did well and what we need to get better at.
Irrespective of the game that is looming it will be about getting better and continuing to teach and develop all of our players, not just our kids but also our most experienced players.
We are on the hunt for good teammates and we are on the hunt for people who want the team to be more efficient and not just going into games thinking “gee I hope I get a kick, I hope I play well and I hope I play a starring role”.
Those days are gone and we are not going down that path. We are looking for good teammates who drive the team.
Sincerely,
Brendan McCartney
Dear Member,
It is early in the week here at work again after a disappointing loss against St Kilda on Saturday night — we here share your aggravation.
The disappointing part of the evening for us was we had an opportunity to test ourselves against a pretty well drilled, structured team and there were really evident signs that we just hadn’t followed what we were asked to do with the way we set the ground up and with the way we were setting the stoppages up.
We had too many people reactive to the opposition and not thinking their way through it and that is going to be a challenge for myself and the coaches to realign.
We are not for one second accepting that it is ok to be like that. St Kilda put pressure on our players when they had the ball in hand and we forgot about the basics – if you have a free teammate just take it straight away, give the first option.
As a result our young forwards got starved of opportunities and too often were left to try to compensate when they were heavily outnumbered because we were taking too long to get the ball into them.
What we are going to do as a group of coaches is that every Monday will be the same whether we win, lose or draw — we will go through what we did well and what we need to get better at.
Irrespective of the game that is looming it will be about getting better and continuing to teach and develop all of our players, not just our kids but also our most experienced players.
We are on the hunt for good teammates and we are on the hunt for people who want the team to be more efficient and not just going into games thinking “gee I hope I get a kick, I hope I play well and I hope I play a starring role”.
Those days are gone and we are not going down that path. We are looking for good teammates who drive the team.
Sincerely,
Brendan McCartney
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